Drawer-guide



(No Model.)

- T. HANSON. DRAWER GUIDE Patented Jan.'26, 1897.

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TORVALD HANSON, OF EAU CLAIRE, KVISCONSIN.

DRAWER-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,945, dated January 26, 1897.

Application filed May 1, 1896. Serial No. 589,887. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TORVALD HANSON, of Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drawer-Guides, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to lateral guides for slidable drawers, and has for its object to provide novel, simple, and improved features of construction for devices of the indicated character which will render the drawer-guides laterally adjustable and thus adapt them to compensate for shrinkage and wear of the drawer and the parts in which it slides.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view of a drawer and parts in which it slides having the improvements applied thereto, the section being taken substantially on the line 1 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation substantially on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a peculiarly-shaped wrench that is well adapted for adjusting the novel drawer-guides while they are in position for service, and Fig. 4 is a partly sectional side View of novel details essentially on the line 4 4 in Fig. 1.

The improvements may be applied to drawers and slideways therefor in furniture, storeiixtures, or any structure, stationary or portable, that has one or more 'slidable drawers.

To illustrate the application of the invention, the novel details of construction are shown applied to a portable cabinet, 10 representing the cabinet-case, and 11 the drawer therefor.

There are two hard-wood or metal basestrips a, afiixed in the case 10 on its floor, said strips being provided as a track whereon the drawer 11 is seated and may be reciprocated. On the upper side of the chamber in the case lO two cap-strips b are secured, which are so spaced from the base-strips a as to permit said cap-strips to loosely contact with the upper edge of the drawer 11 when it is in the cabinet.

The improvements comprise two similar guide-strips 12 and means to adjustably sup port them in place, one at each side of the drawer 11. The guide-strips 12 are preferably formed of flat metal bars of a length proportioned to that of the drawer they are-to laterally and loosely contact with in service. At points near'each end of each guide-strip 12 similar adjusting-studs 13 are affixed, which project therefrom at the same side of each guide-strip, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The studs 13, two or more in number for each guide-strip, are threaded for the reception of the nuts 14, one of the latter being screwed on each stud and normally located close to the guide-strip.

At each side of the chamber in the cabinet which receives the drawer 11 upright contactplates 15 are secured by screws or other means, and said plates are perforated opposite holes in the sides of the case 10 to looselyreceive the threaded bodies of the adjusting-studs 13.

It will be seen that when the guide-strips, with the studs and nuts thereon, are placed in position, one strip at each side of the drawer 11, and the nuts 14 are correctly adjusted the faces of the guide-strips 12 may be caused to lightly bear on the sides of the drawer they are adjacent to, and thus serve as guides for the drawer to facilitate the easy and correct reciprocation of the latter when it is necessary to open and close the same.

A wrench 16, bent as shown in Fig. 3, is preferably employed to adjust the nuts 14, this being readily effected if the drawer 11 is first removed from the case 10 or like support for said drawer, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. It will be evident that if the nuts 14 are screwed a proper degree in a direction which will remove them from the guide-strips any lateral motion that is objectionable and is the result of wear or shrinkage may be corrected and the drawer 11 be held in correct position for easy movement.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. The combination with a case and the slidable drawer therefor, of lateral guidestrips for said drawer loosely contacting with o. A guiding device'for slidable drawers comprising guide-strips on each side of the drawer having threaded adjusting-studs projecting therefrom, contact-bars attached to the case having apertures therein designed to loosely receive said projecting studs, nuts secured on said studs between said contact-bars and said guide-strips whereby said strips may be laterally adjusted, as and for the purpose described,

TORVALD HANSON.

\Vitnesses:

ED. II. ERICKSON, HANS THOMPSON. 

